The Influence Of Family Income On The Choice Of Care Mode For Children Aged 0-6

Since the reform and opening up for 40 years,the attitude of modern families towards children has shifted from focusing on the number of children to focusing on the quality of children.This shift from focusing on "birth" to "education" has put forward higher requirements for the quality of child care.At the same time,with the introduction of the people’s livelihood development goal of “children’s education”in the report of the 19 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,the issue of child care has gradually become a social issue of concern.In addition,under the social contradictions between the current imbalance and insufficient development and people’s growing needs for a better life,the imbalance of family income is significant.The family is the most basic unit of children’s life,and family income is extremely important for children’s growth.Therefore,this article focuses on unbalanced family income and child care issues that are gradually entering the social perspective,and explores the impact of family income on the family’s choice of child care..Through the analysis of family behaviors,the government formulates corresponding recommendations for policies that ease the pressure of family child care and socialize child care.Based on Human Capital Theory,Opportunity Cost Theory and New Family Economics Theory,this paper analyzes the theoretical mechanism of the influence of Family income on child care style,using the data of China Family Panel Studies(CFPS)in 2010,2012,2014 and 2016.In this study,families with preschool children aged 0-6 were used to study the influence of family income on the way families choose to care for children aged 0-6.Firstly,the paper analyzes the status quo of family’s choice of child care mode under different income levels.Secondly,the multi-classification logistic regression(Mlogit)model is used to analyze whether there is a significant relationship between family income and child care methods.On this basis,other control variables are added to more accurately analyze the relationship between the two.Thirdly,in order to avoid the self-selection bias caused by the family’s self-selection of income level,the propensity score matching method(PSM model)was used in this paper,with the high-income group as the treatment group and the low-income group as the control group,to further analyze the choice of child care methods of families with different income levels.Finally,group regression analysis was conducted to analyze the heterogeneity of child care choices in different regions,urban and rural areas,and families with different parents’ ages and education levels.Research findings:As family income increases,families tend to choose to purchase services and grandparents’ care.Increasing the family’s disposable income increases the probability of families choosing to purchase care services.The difference of family living in different regions and urban and rural areas does not affect parents’ investment in early childhood human capital for their children,and parents still have the need to purchase care services.The influence of parents’ age and education years on family’s choice of child care mode is mainly based on family income.In addition,the imperfect childcare market for infants aged 0-3 years has become a major obstacle for families to purchase care services for infants aged 0-3 years.According to the above problems,this paper puts forward the following suggestions: First,give certain child care policy support to middle and low income families to reduce the economic pressure of child care;Second,strengthen the market construction of childcare services for infants aged 0-3 to relieve the pressure of insufficient infant care resources;Third,we need to coordinate the development of early childhood education and solve the problem of uneven distribution of educational resources between different regions and between urban and rural areas.It is expected that the above suggestions will alleviate the pressure of child care within families,solve the problem of "looking after children",and promote the promotion of social fertility rate in the long run.